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Uber Will Pay $4,000 for EV Drivers | Waymo Under Investigation & Lyft Fights Back | Ep 275
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Two hosts dig into Lyft’s new driver controls, Uber’s $4K EV push, Waymo’s school bus probe, and Amazon’s smart glasses while swapping road stories and safety tips. We weigh DoorDash’s SNAP fee waivers, restaurant policies that shift costs to drivers, and how to plan a profitable Halloween weekend.
• Telegram as our main community space for drivers
• A memorable passenger conversation that restores faith
• Strategy for Halloween and homecoming surge windows
• Lyft’s wait-time pay, tip insights, stacked bonuses, ride-type filters
• Uber’s $4K EV grants and real charging economics
• AI fakery and a viral DoorDash clip unpacked
• SNAP fee waivers, menu markups, and driver impact
• Amazon delivery glasses promise vs reality
• Using Uber rider-rating filters for safer shifts
• Restaurants refusing bags and carriers
• Waymo investigated over school bus violations
• Good Samaritan carjacking and driver safety rules
• Deer-filled deliveries and roadside wildlife oddities
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SPEAKER_05:I was looking at TikTok and I'm just like we're learning and then I'm like, the music is stopped, and I'm like, wait, I suppose the music.
SPEAKER_04:We're gonna talk Uber will pay you four grand to buy an EV. Uh Waymo under investigation for uh running school bus lights, uh, so it's kind of full circle for me. And then uh lift fights back. I don't know what the AI decided that was appropriate for, but uh that's what it says. Uh thank you guys so much. If you are on TikTok, you can get the full show on uh YouTube. Uh go to youtube.com and search for the gig economy podcast. Uh go to gig economyshow.com if you want to find out everything about us, um, stalk us, all that fun stuff. We'd love to have you there.
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SPEAKER_06:Part of the show.
SPEAKER_04:She was uh moving and shaking. And then also we have a telegram group that you can join. All these links are in the description, and Larry's gonna tell you about that.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, so our telegram group is a main way that we communicate back and forth. It's like a texting program, but you can also do video and voice messages when you're out on the road. Um, it's a lot easier to do a voice message instead of trying to text and drive, which isn't very safe. So you can just click that button, do a voice message, we can hear it. And you can meet and communicate with gig workers all over the country, talk with people who are in the same boat. They know the pains that you're going through doing gig work, they know the joys, the uh the thrill of the hunt that we we don't have quite as much anymore. But it's just a great way to meet some people, not feel so alone out there because gig work can be very isolating.
SPEAKER_04:And that's where we hold our community. I know uh it's kind of boomeress, but it's easy. Uh, I know Pete had set me up with a great Discord and everything, and it's so fucking confusing. I know I sound so old, and I I love tech and I try to keep up with it. Yeah, I just don't get it. Telegram works for us, you can share pretty much every anything you want in there. I mean, as far as like you can post videos and you can do polls, and like it's I don't know. So we have a Discord, I don't even know who's in it, I'll be honest with you. But Telegram's a great uh tool for us. It keeps uh I call it Kiss, keep it simple, stupid. Yes, and uh we move on from there. So definitely. Uh story from the road. Looks like Larry got a story, and I'm very happy about that. Uh, no gig work again for me. I will be out this weekend, so join the telegram group, anyways. Larry, tell me about your great conversation with your pastor.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, so yeah, just working uh work during the day Saturday, didn't work at night uh during the day, and just picked up this kid, he was probably 23 or so, and uh he was just asking me a bunch of questions about the gig economy. He's really seemed interested in it. Just uh, you know, then I and I mentioned the podcast, and he had like his eyes lit up. He got real excited about that, and uh we got talking about podcasting and and you know, just life in general, pretty much. But it's one of those rides you have every now and then, you're like, Man, that you know, I wish all my rides could be all my passengers could be like that. Because just you know, really engaging and you know, uh interesting guy, very polite. Um, asked a lot of good questions. And yeah, I just you know, one of those you get done, you're like, Man, that that that was that was a really enjoyable ride, really nice conversation with you.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, there were two things that kept me driving back in the day. It was conversations like that, and then a fucking seven times multiplier. You know what I mean? Like those two things were like, you know, because sometimes you come home and you're just like, Oh, after a night, you're like, why do I do this? Like bar clothes and shit like that. Oh, yeah. And then the next night, like you said, you have one or two of those things, a great conversation or a great money ride. And you know, you're like, okay, I'm back in, I'm back in.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, it kind of reduces you, you know, for for a while, and you're ready to go again for a little while to get some you know asshole in your car.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, I know. And it's just like, God, why do I do this so bad?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, we we all questioned our life decisions many, many times.
SPEAKER_04:I I don't think I ever want to go back. I just don't think I I wouldn't say I would completely rule out rideshare, but I mean I would I think I'm gonna rule out the late night. I mean, it's gonna have to be you're gonna have to like guarantee me like$400 if I drive for like six hours or something crazy.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, uh yeah. I mean, uh speaking of uh um you know big money nights, hopefully, I mean the next three nights should be big here because Thursday night it's it's the Thursday before Halloween. Yep. The the college kids are gonna be partying. Halloween's always a big night, and it's on a Friday night, Friday the 13th.
SPEAKER_04:No, Friday the 31st.
SPEAKER_06:And it's gonna be it's gonna be uh uh it's gonna be you know just it you know, Halloween's always a big night. And then Western's homecoming is Saturday.
SPEAKER_04:Holy cow, Larry, you better get you better go to sleep right now because you're about ready to make a thousand dollar three-day weekend.
SPEAKER_06:I I really hope so. I really it's been a while since I've had you know a really good three-day weekend. But you know, that that's the problem though. You stay out late Thursday night, and then you know, I have to work Friday in my day job, and then you're tired Friday night, and then you stay out Friday night, and then Saturday you want to get out for for homecoming. And so yeah, you gotta figure it out strategically.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, you might have to pick and choose which night because unless you call in sick to work on Friday and just sleep it off. But yeah, I know you won't do that, but no, probably not. But yeah, you're you're the guy, you're the oldest man I know that runs on zero sleep, like do work till like 4 a.m. and he'll be at church at eight. You know what I mean? He'll be like, hey, do what you gotta do, man.
SPEAKER_06:I'm here to worship the Lord, but I am so tired. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Bubba Sue, I'm I'm really hoping I make some good money this weekend for sure. I hope it's a good weekend. Last uh last couple of homecomings have been you know, seen some decent surges. That I remember last homecoming, like I think it was last year, where that one spot kept lighting up with$27 surge. And so you just turn it off and go to that spot, catch your ride, soon as you know, immediately set it to where you're not gonna get another ride, and then you drop them off and go back to that spot. And hopefully we'll you know see some of that this weekend.
SPEAKER_04:I'm thinking of I'm thinking about that. I think you skip Thursday and do Friday and Saturday. That seems like the better fit.
SPEAKER_06:I think I may do Thursday but not stay out till I can't stay out till midnight. I'd be I'd be fine, but just not stay out till 3:30, 4 o'clock.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I feel like a lot of people are gonna hold back on Thursday because of Friday, and so maybe it won't be as as profitable. But yeah, yeah, you could stay out till midnight and be fine. Yeah, and I mean I couldn't, but yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I was you know, I was planning on coming home and sleeping, you know, for a couple hours after work, which is what I do a lot sometimes on Thursday. But but my uh my niece's uh husband, he's retiring from the fire department, they're having his retirement dinner tomorrow, so gotta go make an appearance at that.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, just just do that and then head right out after that.
SPEAKER_06:That's the plan.
SPEAKER_04:All right, gig economy in the news. Um, I have an email I want to read to you. Well, I mean bits and pieces. So I just finally realized that Lyft was sending me like what is it, news releases or whatever. Um, and this was October 27th, two days ago. Um, so they uh Lyft announced a new suite of driver features, and I just kind of want to talk about this. So the first one earn sooner while waiting during pickups, drivers will start earning wait time after just one minute. That means over a third of rides will now qualify for wait time and pay will be higher if the ride has a turbo bonus. I mean, obviously it's you know, what do we get? Ten cents a minute. So it's like yeah, it's not. I mean, it's it's something. All right, it's something. Uh new tips dashboard gives drivers visibility into their tip earnings history and insights to help maximize earnings. And starting November 1st, drivers can redeem lift reward points for holiday gift cards from brands like Advanced Auto Parts, AMC, and Sephora. So I don't know how you earn those, um, but that's something new. Uh stack your bonuses for the first time ever. Turbo pre-planned and flash turbo real-time bonuses can be stacked, letting drivers multiply their earnings on high demand routes. So turbo pre-planned, is that like, oh, is that kind of like what Uber does? We're gonna give you. Remember how they used to give you like three dollars more per ride for that hour? I'm assuming that's what they're talking about, right? I don't even know.
SPEAKER_06:I really don't. Do we we we we don't I don't see much of that uh um damn it, Larry?
SPEAKER_04:You're the only one that drives.
SPEAKER_06:I know I am. I and and I do drive lift, uh, but we don't see a lot of lot of turbo or stuff down here. And they keep they've changed it a bunch recently. Um and I haven't you know haven't been driving much since they changed those. Yeah, but I should maybe I'll learn I'll should learn more about that this weekend for sure.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, and you know, I want uh I gotta get a hold of Gabe, and you know, he's probably knows about this too. But uh a couple more things, customize ride challenges. Uh drivers can now choose exactly how many rides they want to complete, tailoring challenges to their own goals and schedules. But I mean that's gonna okay, that's great, but the money, you know, you're not gonna get 500 for doing 10 rides. Uh this is it.
SPEAKER_06:They said you could you can set it up how you want it.
SPEAKER_04:Class action. Uh two rides and$1,000. Uh choose your ride type. So this is interesting.
SPEAKER_06:Okay.
SPEAKER_04:Drivers can now select specific rides they want it in their drive set settings, offering more flexibility and control than ever before. Lyft has never allowed that. So um it you you you can, you know, Uber's always been able to be you can just be comfort, you can just Uber Pack Electric, Uber X, Uber XL. Lyft has never done that, except it used to be you could be XL or Lyft X. That's what that was it. That's it. But now you can choose to do comfort only or XL or whatever. So that's that's huge. Yeah. Um, and then some lift safety hub that no one cares about. So I this is kind of good.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I I mean, uh, you know, it's not huge changes, but I it's like you said, it steps in the right direction. Uh I I like the uh I like the you know everything that they've mentioned uh in that email. Um but I hopefully they'll they'll continue to to move that direction. And like I said, uh you know, this this CEO that they have, he seems like he's wanting to really get lift in the game and and pick up market share.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, it's not I mean they're kind of tripping over pennies to get n or what is it, tripping over nickels to get pennies or something like that. They're like adding a little something, like you know, obviously the wait time, it's it's nice, but it's yeah, you know, I it it's probably an advantage to them. They're probably gonna hopefully people will wait longer because you know what I mean, just to kind of you know say don't cancel basically that you're getting paid earlier, but yeah, I'm getting paid. Um and the new tips dashboard. I mean, I always like a new AI if it's nice, if it's informative, it's transparent, um, those kind of things. And then, you know, the lift rewards, I don't know.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, because with lift the uh you know, the tips it it's tedious to try to go back and look through your rides and look at which ones had tips. If they can consolidate in one place, I'll really that that would be nice.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, so that's good. So that's you know, I'm glad you brought that up because I don't know a ton of what the UI looks like, and so this is this is kind of cool. Um so the stats kind of interesting. These updates built on momentum for the driver focused features, including earlier this year, favorite driver with over 1.5 million riders favoring 600,000 drivers. Uh AI powered earnings assistant. I don't know if you ever um I don't even know what that is to be honest. It was 17,000 plans accepted. I don't even know what the fuck that means. And then the lift rewards through which drivers have earned more than 2.9 billion points this summer. Have you seen any kind of reward thing on that either? God dang, man. Do they like send you any messages? You're like you're like flying dark out there. Pretty, pretty much.
SPEAKER_06:Uh they they probably do. Larry. I don't know. Um, not really though. I mean, I I I I'm assuming you you you know you earn a bonus points. It's probably because I haven't dreamed enough to get it any tier.
SPEAKER_04:Fair, yeah. Yeah, that's probably right.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Um, and I know you what was it like a month ago? You did like a little study um where you were gonna just do lift. Like, what were you what were you trying to do? And you're like, I can't do it. You had to end up getting that long ride you were gonna take the like freaking Nashville.
SPEAKER_06:Um, it was the uh priority. Priority, that's right. Yeah, where you where you you get paid less, but you stay busier.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah, for sure. And just like Baba Sioux Larry is the worst. Yeah, he didn't even he didn't even finish out that test. I'm like, what are we doing here? Just kidding, buddy. All right, let's let's I I had I had to read that. It wasn't actually originally part of the rundown, but I forgot about it and I was like, it's important. I think we need to talk to.
SPEAKER_06:Hey, Jason and and the Lyft CEO, man. They're like this.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, I'm sure Steve's in here. I'm sure he got it too. It's kind of cool that that they do that, though. I mean, Steve. I mean, it's it it's it's very concise, the email, it's to the point, and uh I appreciate it. So I'm sure, like I said, I'm sure Steve got it too. Uh all right, Larry, Uber's gonna pay drivers 4k to switch EVs. I thought this EV push was like done with.
SPEAKER_06:Well, apparently not. Okay. But but it's not for everybody. Uh everybody. Yep. So um, you know, both the both Lyft and Uber have been had this push to go uh where they want the drivers to be 100% or 100% of the trips to be in electric vehicles. Yeah, 2030, right? 2030, yeah, which is not far away. That'll be here before you know it. Uh, you know, Uber said it's gonna be completely carbon neutral uh by 2030 and in all global markets by 2040. Um they originally said that they would not directly pay drivers to get rid of their gas cars and and get EVs. Uh but as as the story is obvious that they've changed, you know, changed their mind about that. So um they're offering uh they're offering this because recently the the$7,500 federal EV tax credit went away. As we know, those are getting phased out. Um uh current administration's not big on the electric vehicles or subsidizing anything.
SPEAKER_04:Why not? Her him and Elon were best friends. He brought a Tesla to the freaking depends on depends on which day it was.
SPEAKER_06:I know, which way the wind blows, I think. Yes, yeah. So um uh it says not every driver will be eligible for the grants, at least not initially. Says as part of Uber's new Go Electric program, drivers in New York City, California, Colorado, and Massachusetts can apply for four thousand dollars when they switch to a new or used EV. So it doesn't really say when they're gonna roll it out to you know other markets. So that's pretty limited right now.
SPEAKER_04:And honestly, I don't think it's worth it. And now that the all the incentives are taken away. Yeah, like if you could if you could uh take that plus the 75, I mean, dude, that it's like a no-brainer at that point.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, at that point, it's it's it it would be yeah, definitely a no-brainer.
SPEAKER_04:And I and I think you know, as far as Uber, they're probably panicking a little bit. They've made this, you know, global statement of like, hey, we're gonna do this, and all of a sudden now the credits are gone, and they're like, shit, how are we gonna do this? And yeah, I mean, I I am for it. So like even without the four, I would have bought, I mean, I did buy one, um, but I man, I really would have thought about it if I didn't get that$7,500 tax credit. It would have been a whole lot harder for sure. I mean, I still would have done it, but it would I mean it, yeah. I mean, with that tax credit, and and you know, I didn't get anything from lift, but I didn't apply for anything. Um, I don't know. I I I think EVs are great for gig work if you have a charger at home. I've said this a thousand times. And not not a not a 110 charger, but a level two. It will not work out, it will cost you more because now that a lot of these uh charging stations are charging more than gas.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:You know, they of course they get you in and then they're like gonna and it and I will I'll shop around if I uh where did we go? Oh, we go up north. We recently went up north, and now there's actually two chargers on my way, so I'll look at both of them and see who's gonna be. Yeah, and go to that one. So it's kind of like that. But uh yeah, I think Uber's panicking, that's my opinion, because the 7500 is gone, and if they want to make this push, um and that's 4K in your pocket, the other one's a credit. Right, it's different to your taxable income. So it's they're not cutting you a$7,500 check.
SPEAKER_06:No, no, no, no. But the$4K is like literally in your pocket, so which is great, and because earlier uh, you know, previous years they had the what the Uber Green had the one dollar uh extra per trip fee that they were giving people.
SPEAKER_04:Well, they still have it, you just have to get it all in the month or you lose it. Okay, is that what it is? Yeah, so you got to do like 200 and some odd rides, and if you don't if you miss the last ride, you get nothing, nothing, which is fucked up.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. Uh that sounds about right. Yeah, it sounds about right for sure.
SPEAKER_04:All right, so all right, moving on. This is just kind of a funny TikTok of the uh it's 10 seconds. If you remember the show we talked about, or the item we talked about last week on the show where that girl claims she was essayed, even though she wasn't, and come to find out she opened the door and she's a POS.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, and so if this video we're getting ready to watch doesn't make any sense, you need to go back and watch last week's show.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Ten seconds.
SPEAKER_01:I'm the victim! I'm the victim. I'm the victim.
SPEAKER_04:Of course, AI. Um damn, she kicked that door hard. I if that was that second kick, man, was like a jump kick, man. I thought I heard that. If you heard the audio, it sounded like it broke. I mean, I'm assuming that was completely AI. I don't know. That that S-O-R-A is the new AI, apparently. And it I guess it's required to have that branding in there because uh if you see that, it's fake. It's a hundred percent fake. Um, but yeah, that second kick, I think if it was real, she she cracked the back of that door.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, but a hole in the wall too.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, and by the way, I've seen that gal pop up still, she's still like trying to fit she not screaming like she she was when we originally, but she is still trying to. I don't know what I don't know if she's just just at this point trying to get door. I mean, you're done with DoorDash girl, you're not getting it back.
SPEAKER_06:Right.
SPEAKER_04:Like, I don't even after all the the accusations of you like actually opening the door and the the ring footage camera, you're done, you're cooked. Find something else, move on. Yeah, yeah, better get on with your life. Yeah, I mean you fucked up. You fucked up. So that was a little play on that. So all right. This is gonna be interesting, Larry. Your article about snap benefits and free DoorDash.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, so uh as we all know, uh, we're in this day, whatever, of the government shutdown, things are starting to kind of come to a halt. Uh I know they've um been talking about the SNAP benefits and uh you know food assistance kind of drying up, uh trying to push people toward food banks. So DoorDash, um they're doing a good thing. Yeah, of course they're trying to capitalize, of course, like everybody else, but but they are doing a good thing. So they're launching what they're calling an emergency food response uh because of the shutdown. So they're offering anybody who is a snap recipient, they're offering them um deliveries with uh let's see, no no service charge, no delivery fee. Um so basically just having to pay for the food. Um as people who deliver the food, you're probably not gonna get a sip.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, Larry, what do you feel about that? How do you feel about this?
SPEAKER_06:Hey, I mean, if they want to do it, uh I mean, like I said, it looks good on them. Yeah, of course. During this time, so is it's really good PR.
SPEAKER_04:Um but they're not really being helpful. Like, I mean, they're pre so a lot of these apps I feel this is just my opinion. I don't know if it's Larry's, but it it it it kind of feels like they're preying on uh people that are less fortunate. Like, you know what I mean? Because like, why would you offer it? You know they don't have any fucking money, they shouldn't be door dashing, they should be figuring out what they need to do, and it it's bullshit. I I don't agree with what's happening with that. Uh you know, my small little political thing, if we can give 20 billion to whatever fucking country we gave it to, Argentina or whatever, we can we can fund the the people that need this uh during this shutdown, you know what I mean? So it just kind of it it feels kind of gross that Doradash is doing it. That's just my opinion.
SPEAKER_06:And Steve's comment, they're using the 39% per item increase.
SPEAKER_04:What do you mean? Like when they're for the cut the these people to to cover their costs?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, Steve, you want to explain that uh further? Any further? You want to expound it? I mean, where I'd be curious where you saw that. I'm assuming that it wouldn't surprise me. No, wouldn't surprise me either. But yeah, so uh here it says they're gonna offer they're gonna waive delivery and service fees. Um, through them it says throughout the month of November. Okay.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Well, hopefully this will get wrapped up. I mean, everybody, you know.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I wish we didn't have the end of the day. There's so much wasteful stuff that we can cut out and and and everything's gonna be fine. But but things like this, you know, living in in the United States, we shouldn't have people going hungry. We just shouldn't.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, we're the richest country in the world.
SPEAKER_06:And and and we throw away so much food, it's ridiculous.
SPEAKER_04:And I'm guilty of that myself. I'm a bougie motherfucker. Um what really frustrates me on the comments, and this is where I wish we didn't have the internet. Like, if we didn't have the internet, we couldn't do this, but like people are shitting on people, get to work. Like, dude, like, majority of people that are on those benefits are like elderly and disabled. You know what I mean? So it's like, don't you you want your elderly grandpa to go fucking work? Like, it's just stupid. But um, yeah, the DoorDash will be making 139%. Okay, so you went from 39 to 139. Uh, which one is either way, it's freaking insane. But um, going back to my original statement, I just think it kind of preys on people that are less fortunate. Um, it's just it's completely ER for them, and there's no other benefit other than that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:So yeah, and yeah, I don't know. And you you can you can get a whole big discussion about oh yeah. Uh if you're on Snap, do you need to be ordered ordered from place to be?
SPEAKER_04:Well, that that's part of it. That's why I feel like it preys on them. The like, you know, the because they're probably already using it, they probably shouldn't, but now they're giving them a better offer to use it, whether they're gonna put it on a credit card or whatever, and like it just it just continues the cycle of like fuckery.
SPEAKER_06:So I get the same feeling that I get when you start talking about you know, like cash advanced loans.
SPEAKER_04:Well, yeah, that's the same thing. They they for sure prey on it, yes, but you know, if I'm gonna go to DoorDash and they want to charge, you know, uh 39% increase. Okay, I I know that I'm getting into that battle, you know what I mean? And I I can choose to do it and it's okay. But if you're already struggling and you're doing that, like again, I'm not blaming DoorDash. They still you still, as a human being, made that decision to go do it, and we all buy stupid shit sometimes. Sure. But uh, it just kind of feels a little gross that they're like, hey, look at us, the hero, we're gonna save you. So yeah, moving on from that. Um, so I'm excited about this because I do actually have some smart glasses, not kind of like this, and I have not recorded enough content with them. Well, if I'm not doing gig work, I'm not gonna use them, you know what I mean? But I have unless we're national. Unless we're national, yeah. Uh I have some um what what brand are they? They're Ray Ban? Yeah, Ray Ban. Oh, the meta AI glasses. So so this is kind of like this. This is a 58 cent 58-second TikTok. Kind of talks about uh giving these to drivers, uh not flex drivers, but DSPs. So we'll watch it and discuss.
SPEAKER_02:So today I'm really excited to introduce you to Amazon Delivery Glasses, a wearable companion we've designed specifically for delivery associates. The smart glasses use computer vision and AI technology built by our team to display real-time navigation and delivery instructions directly in the driver's field of vision. With this technology, drivers can confirm the right package they need to deliver before leaving their base. And seamlessly capture proof of blurry photos at customer doorsteps. The glasses provide turn-by-turn navigation, guiding drivers to the exact blurry location without them having to repeatly check a separate device. They also include hazard detection capabilities that act as an extra set of ice for safety, detecting hazards like a dog in the yard and sharing that information with future drivers.
SPEAKER_04:Okay. Uh wow. I didn't uh I didn't know that that would be your whole like you wouldn't even have a phone. Um that's wild. Um I love it, but then I think to myself, I've I've used the GPS on fucking Amazon's app, and they can't even get that right half the time. So I mean, can you imagine the bugs in these glasses?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. Uh yeah.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, it's cool though, right?
SPEAKER_06:I guess yeah, I mean, the technology's cool. I mean, I do I guess if you already wear glasses, what do you just put them over? I guess they go over top.
SPEAKER_04:Why you hey yo, why can we just focus on the tech? Why do we gotta pick apart if you already wear glasses? That is a good point. Maybe they can come prescription glasses. So there you go. Uh no, I I I mean it would be really cool. What I would love is if it could um, especially if you're in a van like that, if it and it did mention that, but can tell you where your package is. Did it mention that? Like it could it can tell you in the van but it can help you locate packages. Yeah, and I don't know what it does, um but I I think that would be super dope. Um, but again, like let's get our GPS working properly.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, you can put in the cart before the horse here.
SPEAKER_04:Well, I I I do think they probably are uh just uh subbing it to from somebody else, right? Like the the GPS and the data, they're not doing it themselves. I wouldn't think so. So you're kinda at the beckon mercy of whatever company you're using to get that. But um looks like uh looks like Steve's not a fan of it. I I don't know. I mean, I would be a fan of it. I I love if it if it's gonna make the job easier, great. If it's if it if it crashes every other stop, then I'm gonna smash them and give me my phone so I can get my work done. That's all I care about is getting my work done so then I can go home.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, does it is it make does it make my job easier and better, or does it not?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, and I think for a while uh it's gonna be not the greatest, but um I like I said, I'm all for technology, anything to make my job easier. I did like in that video, did you see that there was a little paw print, like a dog paw print? So that was kind of like the indicator that there was a dog on the property.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, yeah. Uh that that's pretty interesting. Uh yeah, I wonder how where is it getting that information?
SPEAKER_04:Well, I'm assuming there's some sort of base inside the van that's just pulling notes from the stop because it has to, I mean, it's giving you directions, and it it looked a little archaic because it was green and it looked a little confusing. And I'm sure once you got used to it, you would you would figure it out. Um, but I'm assuming it's pulling or from the phone. It probably has a phone it is connected to, so maybe for a while they'll do that, and then once the you don't need the phone, maybe there'll be just like a little base unit or in the cloud or something like that. I don't know.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I was just wondering what it's not because I was I was watching that part where it said it could alerts you of dogs or things like that. It's like, well, I wonder if that's in the notes. I mean, uh Yeah, it's just like it's I don't I don't yeah, I unless the camera is camera scanning out there and it sees dogs.
SPEAKER_04:I think it's in the notes, just like it is like on our phones, it'll say there's a dog at this house. Um and so I think that's fine. But um isn't it weird how because wasn't there uh was it Google that put out some glasses like 10 years ago or something like that? Yeah, and then they no one they're like nah, we don't like these, you know. The community, not the community, but like people didn't like them and they just kind of and so they went away. And now I think that's where it's going.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I mean they've been working on this stuff. Like I said, obviously that I and and uh I think it it may have mentioned in the story um that yeah, they came out with a 10 years ago, right? And people have been trying to figure out the wearable technology, you know, whether it's the the rings you wear that give all your health data, or it's the glasses that you wear, or you know, there's been all sorts of different kinds of iterations of wearable stuff, and nobody's really hit it a home run yet on it.
SPEAKER_04:Well, so they the meta AI is is good. Um, what's good about it is you can get prescription glasses for it. See, that's the key. Like you just talked about exactly I got regular glasses. The ones I bought were just clear, I don't need them for glasses. But that those fuckers are expensive though. Like if you're doing prescription, people are paying seven, eight hundred bucks. Um, and I know the the that now they're with Oakley, they're they keep going to different brand companies, and I think either the Oakley ones they have like a uh a display in the glasses, and mine doesn't mine doesn't have any of that. That's just it just connects to the phone. Um but I think that's where it's going, especially if you can use it as a as your regular glasses. And it's got to be battery life. I mean, it it eats the battery.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, you know, you're already I'm I'm already having to charge my watch every night, have to charge my phone like how many times in during the day, and now I'm gonna have to charge my glasses.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I mean, and that's a pain in the ass, because especially if they're prescription, yeah, you gotta put them down on the table while you're working. I'm like, fuck, I gotta I gotta see, man.
SPEAKER_06:If I don't have my glasses on, I'm gonna be running into stuff. Right.
SPEAKER_04:So they're gonna have to figure that out. The ones I have are heavy on my nose. Like if I'm wearing them for a while, they start to like make an indention make an indention. So I when I'm when I'm recording content, I literally will throw them on, record, and then I take them off.
SPEAKER_06:Um, yeah, that's not gonna work either. What do you mean? If they're heavy, real heavy, like yeah, and it's not gonna be comfortable. People are not gonna want to wear that.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, and I get it because you're trying to get the biggest battery in there you can. Um so they got a lot of work to do as far as like comfort and stuff. People aren't gonna wear those for eight, 10 hour days, and then it's gotta be really smooth for me to wear those consistently. Like if because I mean, I mean, how many times you Google stuff for chat, you know, uh chat GPT? If it's like smooth and I can do that with glasses, then I'm gonna be wearing them eight to ten hours a day. But if it's clunky, fuck it. I'm not even gonna deal with it.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, it's clunky. I'm not buying them.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I'm not, I'm not, you know. I bought mine specifically to record without having a a camera on me or holding my phone, so it works for that purpose, but I haven't really even messed with the AI part of it, and I my guess it's not great.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, but probably not at this point. I would I wouldn't think so. All right, well, somebody'll figure it out one of these days. You know, you'll figure out a little tiny nuclear particle they can put in there, they'll charge it for five years. Yeah, it's coming.
SPEAKER_04:It it's it's coming faster than you think. That's what she said. Yeah, but uh, you know, but I think I think this is the new. Like we always thought, is it the chip going in our wrist? No, it's gonna be wearables, it's gonna be glasses that you know are gonna be great. So I have hope.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I think so.
SPEAKER_04:All right, speaking of tests, Larry finally got out, and uh, we're talking about driver rating. And I assume that's from you.
SPEAKER_06:That is, that is for me. So when I logged in on Saturday, you know, I was wondering if I would get this update, and and sure enough, it was there. So you can look at this and uh I tested it out. So you it goes under under your trip filters, like where you can turn on Uber pad or turn on you know deliveries, whatever you want. Down below that, it has a trip filter, it has rider rating. You can turn it off off or on. Once you turn it on, you can adjust it anywhere from 4.9 down to 3.0. Okay. So I guess uh if they're under three, I guess they're not gonna why even bother. Yeah, they're so supposed they shouldn't be even have you know be able to get an Uber ride anymore. Right. Um, so yeah, yeah, you can go anywhere between those and set it. And it'll even tell you, like, as you start getting up higher, it'll be like you may be getting less trips, you know, if you do this. Oh, if you if you keep it lower or no, if you keep if you keep the like if I'll only take people 4.8 or above, okay, you know, that it'll tell you you may get less trips.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, I I I would imagine that that would be like that, um, which is totally fine, like whatever. Sure, we know that anytime you have I mean that's common sense. Yeah, for sure. So well, I'm glad I'm glad you were able to. So that's what we were looking for. Like, can you set it to 2.0?
SPEAKER_06:Can you set it to Yeah, no, it'll go down to three. That's that's as low as it goes. That's fair.
SPEAKER_04:And and again, you you know, you you I'd be curious when you were working, did you look at the ratings? You still didn't okay. Man, I I I want I want all the data, like when I'm grabbing.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I mean, if it flashed up or you something, yeah, you have to go in there and click on the person. Well, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, yeah, if you're if yours are going in the queue and you don't you don't ever get to see that, so yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:And even if it doesn't go in the queue, I don't want to be touching my phone that much. You should be able to see it on the request. Uh do we?
SPEAKER_04:I swear to god, you should be able to see that. I mean, again, I can't Larry. I'm not taking rides. That is this is where you have to excel.
SPEAKER_06:And it probably like two three years ago, you could see it. They've changed it like 12 times since then.
SPEAKER_04:They changed it 12 times this this 2025. Yeah, probably.
SPEAKER_06:Uh, yeah, there's always a some kind of change going in. Um, but yeah, I mean that's a good thing, you know. People have that, and it's like I said, it's it's another thing. Uh Boba Sue said yes, it's on their request. Thank you, Bubasu.
SPEAKER_04:Somebody that has comments.
SPEAKER_06:Somebody has some knowledge. You would, you know, uh, I have to re she's gonna replace me on the show here.
SPEAKER_04:Well, I mean, I'll sub her in. She's got a lot of knowledge, so definitely, definitely. So it is on the request, but yeah, it does come so quick, and you're just like, you know, whatever.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. Um, and and I've like I said, I I've never filtered trips based on that. So that I mean that's I don't look for it. You know, you know, that's just not something I like.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I mean, obviously you're you're cool with it, and that and I'm fine with that too, if you don't really care. Um, so yeah, if you're not used to looking because you're looking for the critical data like miles, money, where am I going?
SPEAKER_06:Is it taking where is it taking me to? Yep.
SPEAKER_04:So that would be, you know, kind of the last thing that you would look at. Because if it's not important to you, then it's not important.
SPEAKER_06:I mean, there have been a few times, and you know, it's it's just you know, just out of curiosity, you'll you'll click on somebody and see what their rating is, but it's never I don't think I've ever had any consequences, you know. Never been shocked and been like, oh geez, that I there's one there. I mean, there's been some there on the lower and you're like, I wonder, and then they have them and they you know, they were they were fine.
SPEAKER_04:You're like, oh, I escaped death.
SPEAKER_06:This time.
SPEAKER_04:This time, but there's always next time.
SPEAKER_06:That's right.
SPEAKER_04:All right, moving on. Uh, this little picture right here. Uh, I don't know where this is from, but this is kind of stupid. Attention, uh, this was at like a restaurant. Attention, third party. You are provided bags and carriers through the company you are delivering for. You are supposed to be using these when picking up your orders. This is part of our contract with these companies. Due to this, we will no longer be providing bags or drink carriers to third-party DoorDash Uber Eats postmates. You may purchase a drink carrier for one dollar. So uh, I don't know what you think about that. I think it's kind of bullshit.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I think I would not be delivering from that restaurant anymore.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, for sure. I mean, uh, I did a little TikTok video about that, and that was the like the common theme of like, what are we doing? And then the drink carrier, like you're talking like the the cardboard thing, like, because there are our uh companies don't provide us with drink carriers. No.
SPEAKER_06:Um and and and they provide us with with hot bags, but but you're that food stuff needs to be in a bag that's sealed before before it's handed to me. Well, I assume that they're doing that. Did you take something different from that message? Then they're not giving us a bag. What are they gonna do? Just give us the food and put it and put it in the hot bag.
SPEAKER_04:Uh oh, so I read it as God, if that's what okay, so I it's so funny when you do a show. Like I read it as maybe they were providing like hot bags. Oh, we've never seen a restaurant do that. All the pizza places did.
SPEAKER_05:Really?
SPEAKER_04:Papa John's, uh uh, I don't know if Jets did, but like ex Papa John's Pizza Hut, um Little Caesars. Little Caesars was big on that.
SPEAKER_06:No, but I mean, like as a as a DoorDash delivery person, they're not providing you with that. Yeah, they are. Really?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Now I think it shows on your account, although one gal says she got seven of them from Papa John, so I don't know how they, but maybe Baba Sue can back me up. I never personally got one there because I didn't do any really pizza orders, but for some reason with pizza, because I think that the original bags that they gave for DoorDash aren't conducive to pizza. We've seen people deliver pizzas with the with the handles up, you know what I mean? So I think that's why. Yeah, they were now now.
SPEAKER_06:I think it was I think yeah, I think it was DoorDash when I originally started. They did send me a pizza bag, but it was freaking huge. It was huge. This is from and I never used it. Really? But uh, like no, I'm I remember delivering from Jets.
SPEAKER_04:They didn't give me anything. No, Jets never did. It was Papa John's, I think Pizza Hut and Little Caesars gave out pizza bags. Now I don't know if they still do, but I definitely know that was a thing.
SPEAKER_06:Um yeah, I know I don't think I delivered from any of those pizza from any of those.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, see Bubba Sue says, I know Pizza Hut will give you a Door Dash pizza bag. So yeah, I don't think it was uh marked for their brand. I think it was a DoorDash bag. Um, but yeah, I remember around here people were talking about little Caesar.
SPEAKER_06:So uh so well I'm I'm fine with the restaurant saying that. I mean, we're not gonna give you a bag.
SPEAKER_04:Well then, but it's funny you drink carriers. You're looking at it as like a plastic bag. If that's the case, double fuck you. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Here's your hamburger and your fries, man. No bag, no plastic bag. Can you imagine pulling up to somebody's house, man? This is unzipping your DoorDash bag, you'd be dumping it out on their front porch.
SPEAKER_04:Oh my god, can you imagine the viralness of you like setting a fry against a soda and a battery?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, and I mean I'd be telling them on the door doorbell camera, you can call this restaurant and talk to this manager because they're the ones who wouldn't give me a bag. I would throw right under the bus. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_04:I love your take on that. I wonder if that's what it is. I feel like I need to do more research. We'll probably never find out, but yeah, that's wild.
SPEAKER_06:If that's the case, it would be that would be crazy.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah, you're stupid. And then the drink carrier thing, they're selling those those cardboard things, you know, like you get, you know, I don't have to explain everyone's a fucking drink carrier, but for a dollar, that seems a little pricey. You probably pay like four cents for those things.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I mean, I would just save save some from when when I pick up food for my family and put them in my car.
SPEAKER_04:So I wonder if they aren't going to give you the drinks if you don't have a carrier, or they're just like nah there.
SPEAKER_06:I think they'll give them to you, but they're just not gonna give you a carrier. Like, here, here's your seven drinks. Good luck.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, and that's the thing too. I rarely have, I mean, I don't know how many deliveries people do out there, but maybe there's a lot where you have seven or eight drinks. I would never take an order by that. Like anything I'm taking is like one or two drinks, and like I won't do a carrier for two drinks, I will for three. Yeah, um, and and some of the you know, McDonald's, you don't have to worry about it. Um, if Tropical Smoothies not being lazy, they have a little system in their bags too where you don't have to worry about it.
SPEAKER_06:Um, but yeah, I thought this was as much as we you know shit on McDonald's. That that's what they they do the food delivery, right? They package that stuff up. I've never had a problem.
SPEAKER_04:Never, never spilled, none of that. No, no, no, and I would say I probably do more McDonald's deliveries than anything else. Yeah. Um, and they got it, they got it fucking down, like they are killing it. So that's great. Um, so yeah, don't if you ever see a note like this, don't go to that restaurant because they're dicks. Yeah. All right, no doubt.
SPEAKER_05:Waymo in the news.
SPEAKER_04:All right, folks. Waymo in the news. I do not have a video for you. Uh, what we said in the title. Um, so we talked about this about a month ago. Uh actually, I think we may even play a video that these Waymo's were um passing buses while their lights were on. Um, remind me. Uh, you know, I'm just gonna tell no. No, I'm gonna do the article. Remind me after this about lights are on. Uh, so the highway National Highway Safety Uh Administration said money has opened a preliminary investigation into about 2,000 Waymo self-driving vehicles after reports that the company's robotaxis may have failed to follow traffic safety longs around safety laws around a stop school bus. Um, so that's basically the the gist of it. Uh they opened an investigation after a recent media report aired video of an incident in Georgia, which was probably the one we watch, which Waymo did it did not remain stationary when approaching a school bus with its red light flashing a stop arm deployed. Uh the report said Waymo initially vehicle stopped, then maneuvered around the bus, passing the extended arm arm while students were disembarking. Uh Waymo's automated driving system surpassed one million rides of driving, uh, 100 million miles of driving in July and is logging two million miles per week. So uh this is serious, and I think when last time when we did play that video, we definitely did talk about how how fucking hard is it to code that. Like it seems simple. Like, hey, again, I'm not like it's I say it's big yellow vehicle with red flashing lights.
SPEAKER_06:Right.
SPEAKER_04:Red lights, big yellow vehicles, big and yellow, wait, yeah, like yeah, it's not that hard. Uh, especially if it's supposed to be technology.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Um so I was gonna bring up so my new bus has a camera on it. A front, well, it has cameras inside, but this is outside the stop sign and front and back. And the other day I was on my last stop, and I had three of these motherfuckers blow right through it. Really? So all we do is I give my dispatcher the stop time and they send it the video clip and the information because it'll get you the front of it, it'll get you um the rear running it. It gets the rear of the plate, and so yeah, it's a five hundred dollar ticket in Michigan if you run a red.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. So I was just gonna say uh you know, along with the schools. I got behind a school bus today, right when I left work. There's a neighborhood right right kind of behind where our campus is for our school. For and um this guy, he like the road was running this way. He had the bus, he had he was diagonal across the road, like completely, which I hadn't seen before.
SPEAKER_04:It's illegal. Well, a lot of drivers do it.
SPEAKER_06:A lot and I've not you couldn't get around him and let if you wanted to, unless you were going into the grass, like he was completely blocking the road.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, so it's definitely illegal. They rec they that tell you not to do that. Um, you know, you're putting yourself at risk too. What happens if someone's not paying attention? And okay, yeah, 99% of my my drop-offs are door side. We still have to put the reds on, but I do cross some kids. But I mean, I don't know, you're putting yourself at risk that somebody not paying attention smashes into your bus. Yeah, um, I don't know any of our drivers do that, but I wouldn't see them because I'm on my own bus. But yeah, it's definitely illegal. You cannot block traffic like that.
SPEAKER_06:Now, to give give him a little credit, it it was a little bit of a curve, so it could have been he was just making a wide turn and has to stop right there. Uh, but I was like, oh man, like he's he's pretty well covering the road.
SPEAKER_04:Now I won't lie. In the in the I have a curve on that one too. I will kind of creep into the middle, yeah, a little bit. I won't block it, but it's gonna be definitely noticeable that when they come around that corner, like, oh shit, you know what I mean. So I I can't say I'm I'm perfect, I will creep a little bit. Um, but yeah, I don't I don't understand. It's so funny. It's like because we do the yellow to the red, so some people will stop a fucking half mile with the yellows on back. I'm like, okay, cool. And some people will gun it like they're running a yellow light. It's just hilarious. When I see people gun it, I I throw it on. I won't write them, I won't report that because like I'm throwing them on, but like you're running it. Come on, bro. Yeah, so anyways, it's always it's it's so fun doing that. It is, yeah. And you got screaming kids, and you got to check your mirrors. Like it it it's driving the bus itself is easy.
SPEAKER_06:You you it's everything else, other peripheral stuff, right?
SPEAKER_04:Well, yeah, it's the the seven steps you have to do to clear the mirrors and make sure the kids cry. It's like that's the hard part. It's not driving the bus. That's easy.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:So uh 50. Oh man, we've been talking a lot. Uh let's uh let's go to yours, Larry. Uh, the Good Samaritan, which is such a shitty thing. I hate it so much.
SPEAKER_06:This happened out in Washington State, and this is uh it's basically just a door DoorDash driver uh was out working, and uh he came across his family, and it's um the husband and wife, and had seven kids, and they're stranded on the side of the road, and this guy's just trying to be a nice guy, and um tries to stop and offers him a ride, and he didn't know it, but apparently the police had just been there with these people uh like a few minutes before, talking to him, and so uh he's gonna give them a ride in there, and and but shortly after he picks him up, the uh the parents started attacking him, stabbed him multiple times, threw him out of the car, and took his he was driving a blue Lexus RX 300, which is like a Lexus SUV. Uh obviously, if you have has has if you picked up nine people, it's gotta hold quite a bit. Um but yeah, so he threw him out on the road, you know, passing driver, saw what was going on, called the police. Luckily, the guy uh was able to be taken to the hospital and survive. But you know, it it has him questioning now his his uh you know whether he wants to, you know, be be a DoorDash driver, you know, and he stated, you know, why why did I even pick him up? Why did I stop? Yeah, it's a shame to see people who who have good hearts get rewarded with evil when they do something like this.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, did you did it say what their motive was? Because it seems like random, or they're just trying to car I mean they had their kids in there too, like what the seven, seven kids, seven kids, them two and him. What was their point? Were they just trying to carry?
SPEAKER_06:That was the thing, uh it doesn't really go into here, but um uh you know they did steal his car. Um it doesn't let's see. It doesn't say if they took anything else, but they found him. Let's happen uh I guess on a Sunday night. The police found the car on Monday. Um let's see. Yeah, just before 5 a.m. on Monday, the deputies located the stolen Lexus, stopped in the middle of the road inside. They found it was a 30-year-old man, twenty his 29-year-old wife and their seven children.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, he found they found them while they were still in the car?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, they're still in the car the next morning. This happened the the kidnapping, stabbing stuff happened on a Sunday night, and then five o'clock Monday morning, they found the car. It was just stopped in the road. And the parents and the kids, it sounds like they they had to be like on something serious, some serious kind of drugs going on. Uh uh, but they yeah, they they found the car. They said they found uh blood in the driver area and a bloody knife in the guy's pocket. Uh so these people did nothing to they I mean they didn't drive away. Yeah, and it's like I said, they didn't steal any, you know, they stole his car. It gotta be math. Yeah, it's gotta be something. I mean, it could be who knows, it could be some kind of psychedelic drug, it could be meth. I mean, who knows? Yeah, it's all it's just yeah, you you wonder. I mean, it was like I said, it was all for nothing. It wasn't like they robbed him of a bunch of money. There wasn't any kind of you know, really motive behind it. Uh it's just one of those, I think that they it just you know happened and then crazy.
SPEAKER_04:Pieces of shit, basically. Well, speaking of pieces of shit, no, I'm just kidding. Uh, we'll just jump to this uh video and uh this uh added this later, and then uh of course we have the Patreon at 810 uh PM. You can join. Uh if you're the seven dollar tier, you can join uh live and uh chat with the show. Part of the show. All right, this is an Amazon driver not knowing what to do. Um it's like Christmas time. Yeah, when they're trying to deliver this package, 35 seconds.
SPEAKER_00:Prefiero vender calvó con una carrera. Prefiero vender guineo, plátano vende chino vender plátano que yo prefiero vender cualquier cosa.
SPEAKER_04:Holy shit, that's a lot of deer.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_04:So she ended up uh being able to deliver it, but for the audio listeners, there's a ton of deer just chilling in this yard.
SPEAKER_06:Like right up on the porch. Yeah, I counted like seven.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah. And uh clearly they must feed them, which is kind of cool, but she didn't know what to do. Uh then one ran past her, just didn't even like it's like, hey, hey lady, what's up? I'm going to eat.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, yeah. She was kind of like trying to shoe him away.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I saw, yeah. Like, and then the the the commentator was Spanish, so I hope he didn't say anything bad when I don't know what he was saying, but it doesn't really matter.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:But uh yeah, what what is the have you seen anything strange out and about when you've been like delivering or uh just ride share in general? I mean, we always see deer, right?
SPEAKER_06:But yeah, I mean we see you see a lot of wildlife, we deer and turkeys, turkeys, groundhogs, and and what's funny to me though is just in the last probably two to three years, uh we start seeing dead armadillos here. Really? They were never this far north. Holy used to be down in in Alabama and Georgia, because like when I was down there in the military, we saw a bunch of them. Okay. Down in down in uh Georgia, uh, but never up this far north. So I don't know how they're they're slowly migrating up here because it's not uncommon now to you don't see a lot of them, but I'll see I'll see probably half a dozen a year dead on the side of the road.
SPEAKER_04:Are they able the because they're like they can't survive the winter though, right? Are they like and I don't know. I mean they must be, right?
SPEAKER_06:They must be, yeah, because they're up here and and yeah, they must be figuring it out somehow.
SPEAKER_04:Are they adapting to to the cooler weather? I guess.
SPEAKER_06:I I would I would assume so.
SPEAKER_04:Uh yeah, I've never seen an armadillo either. I mean, I'm way in the north. Well, I mean, I'm not in Canada, but I'm one state from Canada.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I don't think you're gonna see them up there anytime soon.
SPEAKER_04:Uh I definitely it is funny how stuff works because there's I mean, this is nerd talk here, but there's definitely grass that we have from the south that has made it up here, and it's like super green from like June, July, and August, and then the second it gets cool, it goes dormant. Yes, um, and it's it's terrible. It's terrible. It's Bermuda grass, um uh and it sucks. I hate it. It's hard to kill, too. So hard. Like people in the in the in the Reddit on um the subreddit, of course I'm in a lawn care subreddit, because why wouldn't you be? Um they always say there people will post a picture of what is this? And then of course the joke is like enjoy your new Bermuda lawn. Because that's swear to god, like I I torched a second uh a section, I round up three times, three times before I seat it, and I still have a little edge on the sidewalk, and then I have a product that will kill that and not the grass, and I'm using that, but it's it's aggressive. Yeah, it's aggressive to say the least, to say the least, yeah. Um the one go ahead.
SPEAKER_06:I was just gonna say hey to Miko.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, she's awesome. I like her. You check out her stuff on YouTube or TikTok. Um, but uh I did see a porcupine the other day. Now I wasn't working, we were going up north, and I'm like, holy shit, I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild. And it was very pointy, and like as soon as the lights went on it, it kind of curled under like this, like it was like hiding, uh, which I thought was kind of cool. But yeah, porcupine is probably the most rare thing I've seen in like the last year.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to think. Um I Armadillo, you win. Well, I don't know. I mean, porcupine's pretty cool too. I don't know that I've seen one in the wild. A porcupine? Uh I've seen uh I've seen beavers.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, you see them in the zoo, but they're I mean, they they their shit is tall. Like it's it's not like a little thing.
SPEAKER_06:Like, I don't know how tall their their little uh Yeah, and you don't want to get close to them because they can fling those things.
SPEAKER_04:You know, my dog would get right up in that thing's ass.
SPEAKER_06:I'm talking they'll shoot him at you.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah, you're fucked. Good luck. Enjoy the emergency room. Yeah, because that ain't gonna feel good. All right, eight ten p.m. eight minutes. Will be on the Patreon. Thank you guys so much for uh joining the show. And as always, don't put up with anyone's bullshit. We'll see you on the road. All right, peace out.
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